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Clitics and Infinitive Vassals

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017

Abstract

Word order of Czech enclitics is quite difficult to acquire for students of Czech as foreign language. While native speakers can "hear" the correct word order, the foreigner needs a set of rules to guide him.

The usual rule for the word order of fixed enclitics seems to be breached quite often. The article focuses on one type of sentences in which the rule for the word order of fixed enclitics is violated, namely in sentences which except for a finite verb include an infinitive and consequently two series of enclitics.

The finite verb and the infinitive each syntactically govern (are governor to) their respective enclitics which in turn are their subjects (recta).